Exactly. It should all be treated as another tool in the toolbelt. To me, it reminds me of when GUI editors came along in IDEs like Visual Studio. It honestly feels the same. Tech CEOs immediately clamor to say that tech jobs are dead, the market for engineers dips. Engineers freak out and refuse to learn the technology while others learn what it is. Those who learn and use it as a tool elevate themselves and move faster. There is a non-trivial group of people who refuse to use the GUI tools on principal. Eventually the CEOs realize they made a mistake, and then more work comes in faster than ever before. Eventually over the years/decades everyone starts using the tech as a tool.
It's the same with an AI. Like it's following the exact same pattern to a T. CEOs starting to realize that it's just a tool that can be used, but it needs people at the helm to know how to use it. Devs are split, some it's accelerating their work if they know what it's doing, others see a useless boondoggle and refuse to use it but are probably only hurting themselves because every interview is asking "are you using AI". I'd say we're finally starting to normalize on it's usage as a tool.